Title
Harnessing Wisdom of the Crowds Dynamics for Time-Dependent Reputation and Ranking
Abstract
The ldquowisdom of the crowdsrdquo is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collectively demonstrates wisdom. Web 2.0 is a new medium where users are not just consumers, but are also contributors. By contributing content to the system, users become part of the network and relationships between users and content can be derived. Example applications are collaborative bookmarking networks such as delicious and file sharing applications such as YouTube and Flickr. These networks rely on user contributed content, described and classified using tags. The wealth of user generated content can be hard to navigate and search due to difficulties in comparing documents with similar tags and the application of traditional information retrieval scoring techniques are limited. Evaluating the time evolving interests of users may be used to derive quality of content. In this paper, we propose a technique to rank documents based on reputation. The reputation is a combination of the number of bookmarkers, the reputation of the bookmarking user and the time dynamics of the document. Experimental results and analysis are presented on a large collaborative IBM bookmarking network called Dogear.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ASONAM.2009.69
From Sociology to Computing in Social Networks
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
user generated content,web pages,indexing terms,group behaviour,file sharing,mathematical model,internet,data mining,information retrieval,reputation,collaboration,ranking,search engines,navigation,web 2 0
Conference
2190-5428
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3689-7
1
0.36
References 
Authors
13
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elizabeth M. Daly178337.91